Energy Transfer Wants Enviros' Sanctions Bid Quashed

Law360 (February 22, 2018, 2:16 PM EST) -- The Energy Transfer entities that operate the Dakota Access pipeline urged a North Dakota federal court Wednesday not to sanction them over allegations that they didn’t do their homework before suing an environmental group they're accusing of organizing violent protests against the pipeline.

Energy Transfer Equity LP and Energy Transfer Partners LP, together referred to as Energy Transfer, opposed a sanctions request and asked the court to strike the request from the record. The request for sanctions was made by Earth First Journal, a publication affiliated...